On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:23 +1000, Craig Preston wrote: > If the sound card is an onboard one, the motherboard will have the plug > on it somewhere. Time to find the manual :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerhard Magnus > Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:39 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: RE: playing audio CDs on FC4 > > > > I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual > booting > > with Windows XP. Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the DVD > > drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening. > > (I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.) > > With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard: > > Vendor: Intel > > Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High > > Definition Audio Controller > > Module: snd-hda-intel > > and plays the usual test tune. > > The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume > > (except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.) > > The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the > drive > > but I can't get any sound. > > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:55 +1000, Craig Preston wrote: > > Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card. > > Windows can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux > can. > > OK, I popped the case. There's no soundcard in the PCA slots so it must > be on the motherboard somewhere.... I don't have a clue where to > connect that CD cable. My dealer said this machine used a newer > architecture but it can't be that new! Are there any linux settings or > linux cd-playing software that get around this problem? > A more simple solution may be, just plug your speaker(s) into your digital output. (probably a black plugin -not green. At some point after installing fc4, my analog output stopped functioning yet when I use a different os I have to change the plug back to analog. --gary
